Judy, it sounds to me like you're trying to win a popularity contest. Go figure! BTW, if you think positively of Michael's character, then I'm very, very happy that you think negatively of mine.
On Monday, March 24, 2014 3:52 PM, "authfri...@yahoo.com" <authfri...@yahoo.com> wrote: Poor Barry. Does he really imagine I would have ignored his Chopra quote "mistake" if there had been no pandit "riot"? Because otherwise his attempt to associate them makes no sense. (He knows that; he's hoping readers won't figure it out.) Of course, I'd have called him on the "mistake"--and called Share on her dishonest attempt to "rescue" him--regardless of the pandit situation and Barry's criticisms thereof.. His problem is that he knows my comments on his criticisms and on the pandit situation generally aren't at all a "classic TB cult response." He wishes they were, goodness knows. His agenda has always been to portray anything other than totally negative commentary on the TMO/MMY/TM/TMers, and total agreement with the TM critics, as "cultist." I don't think many here, or of those lurking, are fooled by that any more. He certainly doesn't believe it himself. Finally, as I've pointed out before, my "issues" with Barry are issues with Barry as a person, with his persistent dishonesty and viciousness toward others. It's not that he's a TM critic, it's that he's a rotten human being. And it's easy for anyone to validate my perspective simply by looking at how I deal with other people here: TM critic Michael and TB Share, just for two examples. I treat Michael with significant respect, because he is not dishonest and not vicious. I treat Share with significant disrespect because she is both (like Barry). IOW, how I deal with people here depends on what I think of their character, not their stance vis-a-vis TM. Barry knows this, has known it for years. Most who have followed my posts know it too. That's why his panties have been twisted so far up his nose lately they've invaded his brain. Poor Barry. Still stuck in his delusional fantasies. Poor Judy. Still stuck on bullet points 1, 5, and 6 of the classic TB cult response: 1. Shoot the messenger. Do anything you can to demonize the person or persons making the criticisms. Your goal here is to undermine their credibility and get other people on the forum to ignore what they're saying. 2. Call them liars. One of the best methods of sabotaging a critic's credibility is to pretend that he or she is a chronic liar. The lurking TBs you're trying to appeal to would rather believe that the critics *are* lying than believe the criticism anyway, so if you call them liars enough times, the TBs will stop listening to them. 3. Call them crazy. Speculate about the horrible things that happened to them in the past that made them this way. If you're of the Willytex persuasion, you can even make up crazy shit. All that's important is that a few fellow TBs see them as psychologically disturbed. 4. Nitpick them into arguing with you. Any nitpick will do, but the best is some kind of semantic nitpick about one or two words in something they posted that doesn't really have anything to do with the criticism you're trying to D-E-F-L-E-C-T. If you can get them -- or other posters -- all involved in a meaningless nitpick side argument that has nothing to do with the original criticism, they aren't involved in the criticism. You've won. 5. Trash their supporters. Anyone who says anything positive about the critics you're trying to silence is your enemy, and thus Fair Game. 6. Do all of these things while claiming that the criticism itself -- the thing that has your panties in a twist and halfway up your anal canal -- isn't what you're really responding to. ________________________________ From: "authfriend@..." <authfriend@...> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, March 24, 2014 8:59 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Barry's Chopra quote scam And BTW, what does it make Salyavin to put the URL for the roboquote site under a genuine quote, as if that's where it came from? (So funny, he can't make himself write the word "mistake" when it applies to him.) Note that Barry couldn't tell whether it was a roboquote or a genuine Chopra quote. Even Share thought it was genuine (so she says, anyway). That makes Barry dumber than both DoctorDumbass and Share. Turq made an assumption. Because the original quote was followed by the link to the 'bot site. But I don't feel bad about having poked Jim with this because 1) his reactivity and defensiveness -- especially as an "enlightened one" -- has been so much fun to watch, and 2) Jim is so dumb he wouldn't have been able to tell if it had been one of the shorter quotes.
